DIY Candy dish..from the Dolla Tree

HAPPY FRIDAY!! I don't know about y'all but this week has flown and I mean f-l-o-w-n by!! Not that I am complaining or anything because I definitely love me a weekend!
Remember about a month ago I shared with you my sisters surprise Tiffany & Co. themed birthday party? And remember how I promised I would do a how to post on the different things I made? Well I didn't lie because I am sharing that with you today...finally....I know.

Well guess what?!

I bought this at the Dollar Tree...it didn't look anything like this when I bought it but almost everything came from Dollar Tree!!

Don't you just LOVE a DIY project with stuff from the Dollar Tree? 

.

I had some crazy picture in my head for this little project and I knew exactly what I wanted to get and how I wanted it to look.

This is actually a glass bowl on top of a glass candle stick holder.

What what!?

I am in love with how it turned out!

I used Gorilla glue to glue it together and bought the spray paint at Wal Mart.

This cost me about $6 considering I already had the Gorilla glue.

I just glued the bowl on top and then let it dry for about 30 mins and then spray painted it.

Don't use too much of the Gorilla glue because it expands as it dries.

I also made this one...

It's a glass bowl on top of a drinking glass. 

I did the same exact thing as the one above!

It was my first time ever using spray paint and let's just say I am looking for everything to spray paint now, I loved using it!!

Have any events coming up you could use this in?

If you make one let me know so I can look at it!!

Week 2 of training will be over this afternoon as soon as I clock out and you all know what that means...

6 more weeks of training!! 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! :)

Share:facebook - twitter - pinterest

DIY Candy dish..from the Dolla Tree

That one time...

I moved out on a Sunday night and started work the next morning at 7:30 a.m. oooh yeah that was last Sunday!!!!

I'm alive...sorry I have been such a bad blogger lately, like really bad but hopefully that will all change this week and from now on!! I started my new job last Monday morning (6/17) bright and early at 7:30 a.m. with a mountain dew in hand. I am working full time since I moved out. I worked full time for about a month but that's about it, I am so used to working part time that I am completely exhausted...guess I won't be making fun of my parents for going to bed early anymore, ha! So 1 week of training down....and 7 more to go BUT I can and will do this! I have only heard great things from this company and I am excited to work for them.

The moving out part.... It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be, I was really nervous for some reason. The only thing I am struggling with is not having random things around...for example the other night I needed a toothpick, if I was at home I would have just walked into the kitchen and grabbed a toothpick, no big deal. Well as silly as it sounds I didn't thing to put toothpicks on my grocery list...so I didn't have a toothpick the other night. Oh well it could be worse, like running out of toilet paper...oh wait.  Yeah that happened the other night too. But we won't go there. It's okay I know you are laughing...I did too. So I have made four a few stops at the grocery store last week picking up things that I wouldn't usually pick up every week. I keep telling myself I will get the hang of this whole living on my own thing...someone tell me I am right?? Okay, that sounds dramatic it's not that bad. I really am enjoy it and I am having fun!! I have made a few new friends at work already and they are pretty great. I am excited to get to know them better!

If you are following me on Instagram then you saw that on Monday after my first day of work Matthew drove over an hour to see me, took me to El Tap and got me a dozen red roses...

 MELT MY HEART Y'all I just love him.  I am just so thankful for his love. Lucky really doesn't even begin to describe it. How have YOU been? I feel like I have spent the past hour or so just playing catch up and reading all y'all's recent posts...missed them all!

One last thing! This is one of my absolute FAVORITES to sing at church and we sang it this past Sunday night and I have been singing it in my head on repeat so I thought I would share it with you! It was actually recorded at CYC. I love love love CYC and I am hoping to go this year as a chaperone Have you heard it before? Don't you just LOVE it?!!

Oh one more thing...promise it's the last

I held a snake this weekend..what what!!

I held it behind the jaw so it couldn't bite me, ha!

HAPPY TUESDAY FRIENDS!

Make it a good day!

Share:facebook - twitter - pinterest

That one time...

Father's Day crafts

Did you know that I used to work at a daycare? I was the infant teacher to 8 beautiful babies (miss them like crazy!!) This time last year I was working at the daycare but searching for a bank job. Little did I know one of the babies in my room would lead me to my job now. The little brown eyed girl's mom worked at BOA and asked me if I knew anyone who wanted a part time job at the bank....lkjlskdgvusidvh WHAT????!!!  DID SHE KNOW I HAD JUST APPLIED TO LIKE 10 BANKS?!!  and the rest was history. Well this time last year I was searching ideas on Pinterest for Father's Day coming up. Sure there were PLENTY of projects to do with TODDLERS but hardly any to do with infants. I was frustrated and about to just make a card for the dad's but then I remembered this was most of their dad's first EVER Father's Day...one they will always remember...no pressure, eh? So I racked my brain and finally came up with a few things Project #1

I traced their hands...while they were sleeping. 

Sneaky Miss.Shelby

Project #2

Did you know that if you do foot prints when it's their bottle time it will make it easier to do?

 Obviously a 4 month old is not going to stand on a piece of paper and make a perfect foot print. So what I did was sit them in their high chair and take the piece of paper and clip it on a clipboard and then paint their foot, then with one hand press the clipboard to their foot while holding their foot up against the paper with the other hand.

It might not turn out perfect the first time and you might have to go through 5 pieces of paper but it's okay.

It's the thought that counts...remember?

See it looks like lil Mason only has 4 toes on his left foot.

Project #3

Do the foot print again (maybe try on their next feeding...promise it works)

and to make the polka dots use their finger.

I used poster board so it would be thicker and not tear once the paint was added. 

Make sure to get a picture of them with it on like the poem says! Hope this gave you some new ideas for Father's Day next Sunday!!

Share:facebook - twitter - pinterest

Father's Day crafts

Backyard Drive In...DATE NIGHT

Well now that you know what Matthew did to surprise me for our three years, I will share with you today what I did to surprise him (mine was no where near as amazing as his, ha!) Matthew loves going to the drive in, I remember him telling me stories of when he used to go with his youth group all the time in the summer after church on Sunday nights and he actually surprised me and took me to my very first drive in last summer and I just LOVED it!! Here are some pictures from our Drive In

Gotta have the candy goods ;)

I used an old school desk for our concession stand and had it stocked with all our favorite snacks!

Used our initials to create this little sign...and it rhymed. Score.

and of course I made these cute lil tickets to hand him when he pulled up

My dad let me borrow his truck for the night and I just threw a bunch of pillows back there and borrowed my sisters small mattress, so the bed of the truck wouldn't hurt our backs, so very comfy!

May 29, 2010...the best day

He was definitely surprised and I would say he enjoyed it!

It was so much fun! After it got dark the weather was perfect and the movie was great :)

Our view until it was dark enough to start the movie...not so bad!

Right before we started the movie...almost dark enough!!

What we used for the screen? Two long pieces of wood and a king size sheet from Wal-Mart. Seriously SO easy to make and it worked better than I could have hoped for!

Perfect :)

Share:facebook - twitter - pinterest

Backyard Drive In...DATE NIGHT